Gaps Quotes

• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Taken, Superhero

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Pain, Pregnancy

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• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Margaret Spellings

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

  Margaret Spellings

  Mean, Achievement, Educator

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

  J. P. Morgan

  Success, Wise, Mean

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• The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

  David Hare

  Art, Theatre, Done

  "The Playwright as Historian". Sunday Times Magazine, November 26, 1978.

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• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  Eddie Izzard

  Trying, Gigs, Used

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Wall, Chinese, East

  "The House: Its Origins and Evolution".

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• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

  Major Owens

  Technology, Community, Needs

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• The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Men, Earning, Bridging The Gap

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• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Power, Men, Enemy Of Progress

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• I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

  Joss Stone

  Writing, Advertising, Take Time

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• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

  Christopher Meloni

  Funny, War, Thinking

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• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  Major Owens

  Educational, Technology, Quality

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• Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Government, Entrepreneur, Priorities

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• I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

  Ella Maillart

  Depressing, Ambition, Weakness

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• I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

  Barney Frank

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Beantown Brawl". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

  Herman Wouk

  Reality, Wish, Illusion

  Herman Wouk (1988). “War and Remembrance”, Pocket

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• One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Effort, Needs

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

  Zach Wamp

  Women, Sacrifice, Retention

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• Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Running, Games, Long

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• The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

  Gaston Caperton

  Country, School, Bridging The Gap

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• I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

  Ringo Starr

  Break Up, War, Mean

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• So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

  Margaret Whiting

  Music, Education, Teacher

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